Know Your Rights

It is 100% legal to openly record police in all 50 states as long as you do not physically interfere with the officer. (It's also probably wise to speak as little as possible, but DO make note of details - location, names, etc)

Police officers do not have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" while preforming their public duties.

If an officer says it's illegal to record him, that officer is lying to try and trick you into shutting off the camera so you won't have proof of them violating your rights.

Use a livestreaming app to record your videos. If your phone is seized, the police cannot delete the video because the video was never on the phone to begin with.

This is my big beef with "officer discretion". I've only ever been inside a jail on a ride-a-long but I don't think most cops realize how traumatic the experience of being arrested and jailed actually is. I'd like to see statewide guidelines on things you go to jail for and things you don't. At this point jail is used as leverage by shitty cops because they know that despite you not breaking any laws, they can write it up as disorderly conduct and even if you beat the charge, you won't beat the handcuffs and the night in a holding cell.

"You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride." Especially so when they take you in on a Friday, so you wait all weekend before you can see a judge. Bonus points if they impound your car. All perfectly legal, and used to enforce contempt of cop violations.

Yes, or the whole arrest someone on a friday, have then sit in jail over the weekend and then release them on monday. Happened to a friend of mine whose only 'mistake' was ask the cop politely why he had been stopped (it also got him a face-full of wall because the cop slammed his head into a wall when violently handcuffing him)

Spending the night in jail really isn't that bad... I've spent the night twice, once for driving on a suspended license, and the other for underage drinking. Both times were fun. The women fingerprinting gave me some mints. The other giving me my bed roll was chill as fuck. N we had tv in the cell block. I got my own cell and in the morning I got as fucking babe Ruth. Matter fact it was nicer in jail then having to go home.

ordered his deputies to stop and arrest motorists who appeared to be Hispanic.

"A Latino driver in Alamance County is as much as ten times more likely than a similarly situated non-Latino driver to be stopped by an ACSO deputy for committing a traffic infraction," the Justice Department argues.

In 2010, a Hispanic woman was pulled over and showed a valid North Carolina driver's license to the deputy.

"You stole it," the deputy reportedly said. "The woman in the picture is pretty and you're ugly. We're going to deport you."

I'm not sure how you find these activities to be anything other than bad. The civil rights act of 1964 Section 601 details how this particular behavior is illegal.